. picking up the pieces. folks in the region in cleanup mode after the latest storm hits the region. the areas hit hardest and the push on the effort to restore power. >> a grisly murder in the death of a young mother found in a creek. >> let the games begin. it is opening day for the burgandy and gold. we'll break down the skins and the saints, as well as the entire season. good morning. and welcome to fox sunday. we begin with the storm that hit the region last night, fast and furious, with no shortage of downed trees and power lines. taking a live look outside, the storm knocked out power in the

upper northwest, making driving around the region dangerous. this is video from 38th and appleton streets in northwest dc where a huge tree came crashing down on a parked car. luckily, no one was inside at the time. we've been hearing and seeing scenes like this across the region. northern virginia, trees and power lines down. thousands of customers still without power. and we'll go now to gwen to give us an update on how things are looking this morning. >> good morning, melanie. very much a lot calmer today. last night was an extremely busy time in the weather center and most of the afternoon as well. we had tornado warning after tornado warning, under a severe thunderstorm watch for most of the day as well. lot of activity and you saw the damage there. let's go to the weather maps and show you what's been happening and where we stand right now.

we begin with accuweather satellite radar composite. this storm hit our area, but right off the midatlantic. you can see the moisture and precipitation moving off into the atlantic. things are a lot drier and just a few lingering clouds. for us, not a bad day ahead. some of you may be seeing a little bit of patchy fog. here's an example of winds from yesterday, 58 mile-per-hour winds at reagan international airport. some of our neighborhoods saw winds stronger than that. with the storm, there were reports of funnel clouds. but the national weather service has gone out. they did three surveys as a result of these reports at fairfax, resten and lorton. so far, there is no evidence of a tornado that was on the ground. so as long as you're a wear of that, funnel clouds, but not tornadoes. temperatures right now, cooler than they have been, into the

60s. today, plenty of sunshine. i'll have more details back to you. the wild wet cut a damaging path through dp. c earlier in the evening. some are still without power this morning. >> reporter: it was a quick storm. the wind huffed and puffed and blew the third floor off a building on 8th street in northeast. >> the noise was a crash, a boom and i witnessed the buildings collapsing, you know. it frightened me, really did. >> reporter: the building that collapsed, 335 h street, was under construction, an area merchants say was going to be an apartment building. some people at the ethiopian restaurant across the street saw the third floor go crashing down. >> it was like something hit something, like a car hit, some cars hit each other. >> reporter: to make matters worse, the building had a stop work order posted, no doubt

interest to the owner of the corner building next door who took lots of pictures. on the other side of the building is a day care center, which suffered damage. so did cars nearby. >> thank god no one was walking by at the time. >> reporter: in the upper northwest, the storm took out power. traffic lights didn't work. the only illumination along part of military road came from a house lit by candles. on 32nd street, one house was lit by a generator. sometimes you can at least prepare for power outages by having candles, batteries, generators on hand. but this is something nobody's ever really ready for. a huge tree crashed down on this parked car at 38th and appleton, taking down power lines. a few yards away, a lamp pole crashed down on top of another vehicle. >> when it first came down, it was sparking. it was kind of just concerning. >> reporter: maybe a little scary. is. >> it was terrifying actually. >> reporter: it may folks around

here to recover from the storm. karen gray houston, fox 5 news. to northern virginia, thousands are still without power this morning, including people living near bellevue in alexandria. they have seen their fair share of storm problems of late and they say they have heard enough. >> we heard a snap and a pop. we came to our front window and looked out and saw a streak of fire in the middle of the road. >> couple of us are on a completely different -- like our neighbors all have power and we always seem to get affected. and i think the last one, we were out for eight days. >> well, as of last check, no word on when power to that area will be restored, but we'll check on that in a minute. there are still power outages from the storm. pepco has 850 customers still in the dark, down from about 38,000. bge has just over 1300. dominion, virginia still has just under 14,000. at one point, there were

more than 39,000 in the dark in northern virginia. joining us with an update on crew work, dominion virginia spokesperson, laha. >> good morning. i'm happy to give you an update this morning. we've had about 90% of our customers restored within the last 14 hours. at about 5:30 yesterday afternoon, weaw about 115,000 of our customers impacted as a result of the strong storm that came through. now, this storm didn't have the kind of impact the june 29th storm did, but it was powerful. winds were clocked at 69 miles an hour in some locations in fairfax county and in louden county. it was powerful. our crews began to work right away to make restorations and as of this hour, we're down to about 12,000 customers without power and we'll be working throughout the day today to restore power to those customers.

in fact, we expect that between 6:00 p.m. and midnight, we'll have all of our customers restored today. >> leha, tell me where the hardest hit areas -- it's tough to get restoration times, but for people wanting to check on this for family and friends, when do you think you'll get most people back online, if you know? >> well, we'll have restoration times inputted into our system for individual dwellings this morning. if a customer, for example, you have the woman earlier in the city of alexandria without power, she can call to our call center this morning at 1-866-dom-help and go through the prompts and she'll be given an estimated restoration time for her dwelling. we'll revise that as we get more information, as crews continue to do work throughout the day today. >> leha anderson with dominion virginia, thank you for joining us this morning. >> you're welcome. arts of new york. the national weather service confirms two tornadoes touched down, one in queens, one in

brooklyn. and now the cleanup. the good news there, no reports of serious injury, but look at this mess. damaged power lines made a mess of this breezy point park, right on the waterfront. workers are still trying to clean up and restore power there as well. we're also following a developing story. family and friends of a young dc mother recently murdered are now giving thanks to police, after they made an arrest in the case. shavonne phillips' body was found stuffed in a duffle bag in fort washington creek last month. john hanrahan has the update. >> reporter: when 22-year-old shavonne phillips went missing on july 30th after dropping her younger daughter at a child care center, some of her neighbors at the bening park apartments project in southeast washington knew right away something was terribly wrong. >> my daughter woke me up and said shavonne was missing. there was a hot feeling. i jumped up and i was, like, that can't be true. that's not her, just to up and

leave like that. >> reporter: shavonne phillips' body, encased in two bags, was discovered a couple of days later in swancreek in the fort washington section of prince george's county. it was homicide by asphyxiation, according to the medical examiner. the young woman's apartment in southeast washington was apparently broken into and ransacked around the time of her disappearance. detectives in prince george's county have arrested 31-year-old joseph f jones of mountain lake place in capital heights. investigators believe he was an acquaintance of the victim. >> ms. phillips was on her way to a car auction in fredericksburg, virginia and we believe she was carrying $3800 in cash at the time that she disappeared. so investigators, detectives from the prince george's county homicide unit determined the motive or believe the motor toif be robbery in this case. >> reporter: police say the victim's dna has been collected from a van owned by someone else who was an acquaintance of the suspect, joseph jones.

jones has been charged with first and second degree murder. a balloon is still attached to shavonne phillips' apartment door, with condolence messages scrawled on the door. >> i wish it hadn't happened. young girls out here today need to be careful of who they pick their friends with. >> reporter: the security video from inside the day care center captured the last moments shavonne phillips and her 2-year-old daughter, daniawere together. john hanrahan, fox 5 news. >> dc police are still looking for the gunman who robbed a church. it happened last saturday afternoon at st. stevens church in northwest. you can see surveillance camera caught the thief in the act. investigators say the suspect followed a man into the church and robbed him at gunpoint. he got away with the victim's money, wallet and iphone. if you recognize that man, police do want to hear from you. the presidential race, now kicking into high gear, with the

final campaign battles now set to begin. both candidates hit the campaign trail hard this weekend, helding key events in battle ground states, and yes, that does include virginia. fox's ed henry has the latest in the race for the white house. >> reporter: hitting the campaign trail immediately after the democratic national convention, president obama kicks off a two-day bus tour through florida, eager to scoop up the sunshine state's mother lode of 29 electoral votes. >> by the way, i do care! i like the term "obama care." mr. romney says he's going to repeal it, which means his plan is romney don't care. >> reporter: any bounce from that convention could be stalled by friday's dismal unemployment report, showing just 96,000 jobs were added to the economy last month. the vice president speaking to a fired-up crowd in ohio, trying to shift the focus instead to the priorities of the gop ticket. >> i ask you literally, to ask yourself the following question.

do the folks in ohio really think that governor romney, with his views on outsourcing, his views on general motors and chrysler and beyond that, do they honestly believe, had he been president the last four years, there would be today 115,000 auto jobs in ohio? >> reporter: the republican nominee, mitt romney, answering those charges while stumping for votes in yet another key battle ground, environmental. >> this president has not fulfilled his promises and then he went to the convention and spoke at great length and had a lot of wonderful things to say. but he didn't say what he would help people to get jobs or get people out of unemployment or get people poor back to the middle class. he doesn't have a plan. he doesn't have any ideas. and we got to make sure he doesn't have anymore days in the white house after january! [ cheers & applause ] >> reporter: on sunday, governor romney takes a day off from the campaign trail, resting in massachusetts, while the president wraps up his bus tour in west palm beach. in kissimmee, florida, ed henry,

fox news. well, it's been called the trial of the 20th century. now some 17 years later, new allegations of tampering in the o.j. simpson murder trial. >> and how firefighters and their families are remembering victims of 9/11 at the national harbor. we'll be right back. 

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. making headlines this morning, a christian pastor jailed in iran for three years is free. youssef in a dar was originally sentenced to death in his native country for being a christian. he spent three years in prison, awaiting execution for refusing to renounce his faith. his charges were reportedly lowered to evangelizing to muslims, which only carried a three-year sentence. he was released with time served. imagine you hear a crash and you run outside to find this. an airplane door that fell to the ground midflight! witnesses in washington state say the refrigerator-size panel hit the ground in a fairly busy

area and skipped about 30 feet before stopping in a street. no one was hurt. the faa has not said whether they have found the plane that the door fell from. new allegations of tampering surrounding the 17-year-old o.j. simpson murder trial. former l.a. deputy district attorney christopher darden maintains christopher's defense lawyer, the late johnny cochran, tore the lining of the infamous gloves so simpson's fingers couldn't go into the glove. simpson's defense team is dismissing the claim. president obama and mitt romney get into full campaign mode, remembering the victims of september 11th attacks. and new york health officials vote on a controversial measure. mary anne rafferty has a look at the stories expected to make headlines in the week ahead. >> reporter: monday, republican vice presidential nominee paul ryan has a busy day of campaigning. he'll attend a campaign event in portland, oregon, then head north for two others in seattle, washington. tuesday, it's the 11th

anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the world trade center and the pentagon. this year, for the first time, there will be no politicians speaking at the ceremonies. the reading of the victims' names will be the sole focus. also tuesday, delaware, new hampshire, new york, and rhode island residents head to the polls for state primaries. wednesday, republican presidential nominee mitt romney will be in the battle ground state of florida for a campaign event in jacksonville. also wednesday, president obama visits las vegas, for a grassroots event. the following day, he heads to denver for more campaigning, marking his ninth visit to colorado this year. thursday, the new york city board of health votes on mayor bloomberg's controversial antiobesity measure, calling for restaurants, movie theaters, and other venues to stop selling soda and other sugary drinks and serving larger than 16 ounces. friday, mitt romney is slated to attend a campaign breakfast in new york city at the hilton hotel. and that's a look at your week ahead. i'm mary anne rafferty, fox news. well, there was an emotional tribute at the national harbor

ahead of the 9/11 anniversary. firefighters and their families climbed 10 flights of stairs 111 times to honor the 110 stories claimed by new york city's firefighters on that september 11th. some even wore their full gear and air packs to make the experience as real as possible. each climber carried the photo of a firefighter who gave their life that day. . >> climbing 110 flights of stairs to remember the world trade center and the firefighters there, it's -- they gave everything for us and just doing my little part to give back to them. >> it may have taken them a while to climb, but this was not a race, just an opportunity to remember the 343 firefighters who died that day. the national cathedral plans to mark the anniversary with prayers at its regularly scheduled services. tuesday, the cathedral will begin a morning prayer service at 8:45, followed by a noon service and a choral service at

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. a frightening moment on the field at a college football game. tulane safety devon walker fractured his spine in a head-to-head collision with a teammate. there are multiple reports that he suffered a broken neck, a collapsed lung also in the collision, and was revived on the field, had to have an emergency trach on the me performed as well. devon was rushed to the hospital. the team doctor says walker will need spinal surgery in the next day or two. the redskins kickoff the new season today. i can't believe it's already here, in new orleans against the

saints. the team went 3-1 in the preseason, but we all know, kind of means nothing now. robert griffin iii is among several quarterbacks getting the start today around the league. of course you can catch all the action on fox 5 beginning with our pregame show at 11:30. our own lindsay murphy is live in new orleans. then the fox pregame show at noon. kickoff for the skins and the saints is 1:00 p.m. coming up a little bit later, in about 20 minutes, it is double trouble here in the fox 5 studio, as both guys from the kevin and roch show will be here to break down game 1. we'll also ask them their predictions for the season as well. and now to the college ranks. maryland on the road to temple in philadelphia. we'll be going with that in a second. let me make sure. the terps were hoping to exact revenge from the 38-7 loss last year. second quarter, terps up 10-3 and hills goes deep and hits a wide open marcus leak in the end zone for the 32-yard touchdown! maryland would take a 23-point

lead into the break. the owls made a comeback in the second half, but it wasn't enough. maryland wins 36-27. virginia and penn state went at it for the first time since 2002. picking it up in the fourth quarter, the cavaliers down 16-10, until michael rocco finds tight end jake mcgee for the 66-yard touchdown. then the extra point as well. that is good. virginia up 17-16. penn state had a chance to win it at the end, but the 42-yard field goal goes wide left. penn state kicker had a brutal day, missing four field goals and an extra point. virginia kind of has him to thank for their 17-16 win. rutgers shut out howard 26-0. howard falls 1-1. virginia tech blew out their opponent. and the nats never give up. jayson werth tying it up with a beautiful homerun in the 9th and

they wouldn't be done. in the 10th, corey brown driving one to the right, and it is dropped by john carr santon. nats win 7-6. the teams go back at it again this afternoon. before the game, the big news was the early shutdown of stephen strasburg. the team's ace is now done for the year. the decision comes after a rough outing on friday night where he allowed 5 runs in 3 innings. here's manager davie johnson on why the move was made before strasburg's last scheduled start. >> i think he wasn't focused as much on the game as he was on impending shutdown. it's just the way i read it. he was having trouble sleeping, thinking about, you know, letting the guys down. so i understand his mood. >> j.j. hardy and the orioles looking to continue their recent power surge. bottom of the 6th, o's up by 1

and hardy cranks one to deep left. it just gets over a leaping ichiro for a homerun. the o's go on to win 5-4, now tied for first with the yanks in the al east. well, coming up, we'll have a check of the storm aftermath in northeast and northwest. this is probably not an unusual scene in parts of the city this morning. gwen will be back with a look at today's weather and a work week preview. stay with us. fox 5 morning news will be right back. [ clinton ] it's about which caidate is more likely to return us to full employment. [ male announcer ] he's a good soldier, helping his party's president. but what did bill clinton say about barack obama in 2008? give me a break. this whole thing is the biggest fairytale i have ever seen. [ male announcer ] 23 million americans struggling for work. a middle class falling further behind. give me a break. [ romney ] i'm mitt romney and i approve this message.

. fox 5 monitoring metro with a heads-up if you are taking the rails today. expect delays. three red line stations are closed for track work. shuttle buses will replace trains. four others will have limited service. the repairs continue through system closings sunday night. severe weather tore across the northeast, spawning two rare tornadoes in new york city.

one in queens, the other in brooklyn. now, no one was hurt, but there was plenty of damage and downed lines. we have the latest. >> reporter: severe weather is popping up along the east coast, from the carolinas to new england, as a strong cold front continues pushing eastward. much of the northeast is under a tornado watch until later tonight, including new york city and the surrounding areas. this video is from breezy point in queens, where firefighters have responded to reports of trees down, awnings and shingles being ripped off houses and power outages. the general manager of the breezy point surf club tells the associated press that the storm ripped up cabanas and even picked up industrial size metal trash bins. the storms are part of a system that raced across the midwest yesterday, producing more than 350 reports of severe weather, including four dead, including a child in oklahoma. tornadoes are a rarity in new york city, with only eight reported since 1985.

in september of 2010, two tornadoes ripped through the city, with winds up to 125 miles per hour, tearing down thousands of trees and leaving more than 40,000 people without power. one person died. the weather is also putting a damper on the u.s. open where the men's semifinals were temporarily delayed from heavy rain, while the women's finals were washed out, delayed until tomorrow. in new york, anna coyman, fox news. >> of course we know now the weather has certainly calmed down. >> very much. >> but rough moments yesterday. i was on the dulles toll road and there were points where you literally couldn't see in front of you. >> definitely. at one point, i know at reagan national airport when the winds were 58 miles per hour and a squall line was coming through, visibility was down to less than half a mile. definitely there were some really, really tense moments out there last night. things were a lot better today. let's take a look at our satellite and radar composite. you can see the precipitation is off the coast now.

but up and down the midatlantic, tornado warnings and was and severe thunderstorms, warnings and watches yesterday. even new york or us right now, we don't have any of that that we're dealing with. a ridge of high pressure building in. sunshine and much drier conditions today. but yesterday was really windy. 58 mile-per-hour wind gusts at national, 47 at dulles. good indication of what we were dealing with. temperatures took a big drop as well behind the frontal system that blew through. take a look at your current temperatures now. upper 50s and 60s. yesterday at one point, dulles airport was at 89 degrees. within an hour, dropped down to the 60s. 77 degrees for today, though, plenty of sunshine and much calmer. >> used to be march comes in like a lion, now fall is doing the same! >> yes. >> good to feel it, now that we've passed that. i like that good football weather coming in. >> it's on the way. >> thanks, gwen. well, he has 40 pounds on his back and a sense of adventure he's a teenager just out of high school and he's walking across

the united states. he calls this walk dude trek. i suppose only a teenager could do it. fox 5 caught up with him as he passed through his home state of maryland. >> reporter: with one change of clothes, a map on his belt, and the magic of music, this maryland kid is hitting the road. >> my name is jonah boyer. i'm 18 years old and i'm hiking the american discovery trail. >> reporter: walking along the long miles between delaware and san francisco. >> just over 5000. >> reporter: the reason? >> i wanted to do something. i wanted to have an adventurous moment in my life. >> reporter: jonas, from eldersburg in carroll county, when he graduated from high school in june, he decided to postpone college. >> my mom, her first instinct was just like, you're crazy. no, you're going to college. >> reporter: mom has come around a bit, and dude trek, as he calls it, started week ago. he gets a lot of questions. >> what are you doing? what are you doing?

what is dude trek? why do you smell so bad? i've gone three days without a shower so far. >> it's our lucky day. >> yeah, really. >> reporter: this is sweaty business. >> like i said, i was a runner, so i upped my running for a little while. >> reporter: he camps most nights, but occasionally bunks with friends, like the one who invited him to a party near college park, even though he probably couldn't make it. >> i'm like, dude, you're never going to guess where i'll be friday night. i'll be in greenville park. dude! i live a block away from green belt park! >> reporter: he's only been at it for a week, but jonah says the best part so far is the people he's sharing the road with. >> the biggest surprise is really how enthusiastic and helpful pretty much everyone is. >> reporter: there are times when he's winging it. >> not knowing what's going to happen that night, not knowing where you'll sleep or where you'll eat in one way is, it really worries me, but in another way, it's very, very exciting. >> reporter: he's had strangers pick up the dinner tab. >> the moment that i start to

fuel down, someone's always there to pick me back up. >> reporter: he walks about 20 miles a day and wants to be in san francisco next june. >> tons of fun. tons of fun. it's ridiculous. >> reporter: and this dude will have a story to tell. in maryland, beth parker, fox 5 news. >> and we wish him luck. well, great news if you can't get enough of entertainment gossip. fox is debuting its new show, "dish nation" this week, featuring radio hosts from across the country. we'll have a preview for you when we return. 

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. in the buzz this morning, a new celebrity gossip show debuts right here on fox 5 this week. "dish nation" featured outspoken radio personalities from across the country who kind of give things their own comedic twist. brenda flanigan has a preview. n]♪ >> reporter: celebrity gossip just got a whole lot funnier.

>> kim kardashian, what does she do? >> what do you have against jessica simpson? >> we don't have that kind of time. >> reporter: "dish nation" is revolutionizing conversation from the air waves to the small screen. >> very fast paced, funny, all from different parts of the country, so you'll get different angles and different spins. >> reporter: filming takes place at five different radio stations, in new york, los angeles, atlanta, dallas, and detroit. so adding their two cents to the rumor mill is a cast of radio royalty from across the nation. >> we go from new york to detroit, from detroit to atlanta, back to new york, back and forth, back and forth. >> reporter: among the hosts, scott and todd of new york's wplj morning show. >> a 20-year study shows that rude people make more money than nice people. up yours. >> reporter: they say this season is not one to miss. >> we think it's going to be awesome. >> it's radio with pictures. >> now our audience gets to see, good or bad, what happens in

that radio studio. >> over the top screaming success, guaranteed. >> big. >> reporter: they promise to dish the dirt on everything in hollywood and beyond. >> supposedly they are making it from spider milk. i think it's spider silk. not milk. how do you milk a spider? [ laughter ] >> little tiny nipples. >> reporter: nothing is off limits. >> at least at the strip club, they wipe the pole down or something before the next girl goes. >> we think it, we say it, not afraid to say it, not afraid to be it. >> reporter: the whole cast agrees it's all about being funny. >> getting closer to her due date. >> and we'll be there when her vodka breaks. >> reporter: and having fun with each other. >> matthew mcconaughey wearing a g string. >> hmm. >> how are you feeling about that? >> this movie really speaks to me. wiggle yourself over here! >> you know what i love about the kardashians? >> what's that? >> i don't know. it hasn't come to me yet.

>> we're not the news. we're the entertainment news with a flair. >> dish nation! that's what we dish about! >> reporter: i'm brenda flanigan, fox news. >> and you can catch "dish nation" starting tomorrow at midnight, right here on fox 5. well, the day has finally arrived. robert griffin iii takes the reigns of the skins for real. now they head to the big easy to face the saints and it's not going to be easy there. the guys from kevin and roch show are both here to give prediction for the game and the season. and wait till you hear who they each have -- i can't believe we asked them to do this -- winning the super bowl. gwen? >> the super bowl of weather is headed our way. we've got sunshine, and it's sticking around for a while. stay with us. details after the break. romney plan, a middle class to $2,000 more a year in taxes. multi-millionaires like himself hits the middle class harder... bigger break. forward for america? this message. 

. top stories we're following this morning, the storm aftermath, no shortage of downed trees and power lines. you're taking a look right now

at 38th and appleton in northwest dc. the storm knocked out power in upper northwest and had a couple of traffic lights that didn't work. everyone, still please be careful out there. the power is coming back on slowly, but might want to take an extra look. here's how it looked in the area right after the storm hit. there was a huge tree that came crashing down on a parked car. luckily, no one was inside at the time. >> of course a similar scene in northern virginia, with trees and power lines down. thousands of customers still without power this morning. dominion virginia saying they will be able to give those restoration times for those homes sometime today, gwen. good news for those people who are without power, but cooler weather for them. >> definitely cooler weather and calmer weather. let's get right to it, because lots to talk about today. last night was quite the night. let's take a live look outside and show you the skies are doing fairly well today, considering we've got brighter skies, sunshine for you there. might be a little bit of fog and haze in some of our areas, but that will be very, very short lived as we get into the course of the day.

nice ridge of high pressure is in control across the region for you. so not bad at all. so as we begin with a look at satellite and radar composite, we'll show you exactly where all that precipitation is now, because it's well off the coast, out of the way, and getting a bit of a break. take a look at this, ridge of high pressure in control. even in new york state, with all the tornado activity there, seeing much improvement here. a little bit of activity over areas of the mountains. we can't rule out maybe a spotty shower or so. but winds yesterday, peak gusts, 58 mile-per-hour wind gusts at reagan national airport, 47 at dulles, 35 at bwi marshall. winds anywhere from 39 to 52 miles per hour, a good indication of some of what our neighbors went through around the area with a result of that storm system yesterday. so yesterday there were a couple of funnel clouds that were spotted, but the national weather service has conducted three storm surveys in fairfax,

resten and lorton. so far, no evidence to show that a tornado was on the ground. so that is at least some good news there, even though i know there was a lot of damage in many areas. yesterday's high, 91 at national, same at dulles. 89 at bwi. and i want to tell you from the 3:00 to 4:00 hour when that front came through, significant drop in temperatures. at national airport, the temperature dropped some 17 degrees in an hour, 25 degrees it dropped at dulles. currently, we've got cool temperatures, 61 at gaithersburg. 63 at baltimore. 62 at dulles. we're feeling that fall chill out there. we're not alone. take a look at this, across areas of the dakotas, 36 degrees right now, unbelievable, 37 in areas of the northern plains. so that's a pretty good indication of the cooler air that's really settling in. we're going to get a gradual warmup as we move through the course of the week. northwesterly flow today, plenty of sunshine. ridge of high pressure in control. that's going to hold us into the

week. much cooler, but we'll see plenty of sunshine. by midday today, 76 degrees, sunny and pleasant. and our high today is going to be 77 degrees. light northwesterly winds, as i mentioned. and sunny skies, dry and cooler. by tonight, we'll have temperatures into the 50s. that's going to be pretty much everywhere. our accuweather seven-day forecast, look at this run of sunshine. not bad at all. there is a chance, however, that we could see a spotty shower once we get into the weekend, saturday, maybe sunday, because of another frontal system coming through. but the rest of the week looks absolutely fabulous. i can't reconcile out a spotty shower over the mountains today, to areas of our west. future cast wants to bring one here as well in the afternoon. really nothing to be too concerned with. temperatures, what a difference, though. actually starting out below seasonal. melanie? >> thanks so much, gwen. well, it is the day that redskins fans have all been waiting for. robert griffin iii will lace them up for real for the very

first time today. i can't imagine how that feels for him. the season kicks off with week 1 matchup against the saints. kevin and roch are here from 106.7 the fan. you brought your partner. >> didn't take long. >> i'm sorry. i'm slumming a little bit. [ laughter ] >> we love having you here. i like having both of you. >> [ laughter ] >> so we got the redskins against the saints. really sounds like the skins, as gm bruce allen said, go into a hornet's nest here. >> the pressure for robert griffin, iii today has to be the weight of the world. everybody in the dmv is watching him. now he's going into the superdome where the new orleans saints have gotten a boost from the appeals court and everything that's going on with the nfl. >> i disagree that there will be a lot of pressure on him. i think he'll go into the game calm, cool and collected and ready to get it out of the way for the first redskins game. >> shocker, he disagrees. >> what are keys the game here?

first, of course, let's talk about the offense. >> to me, it's going to be based on what kind of position that kyle shanahan puts him in. what's going to happen with the play calls come in for robert griffin, ii and the different looks he'll give? obviously we had a vanilla offense during the preseason, but it's based on what kyle puts him in in the situation. >> some of the things from the off season we've heard, lot of changes with the 2 and 3 tight end set. we'll see changes we haven't seen before in the preseason. and with the runningback situation, we'll see what happens with alfred morris, if he starts. >> do we know who the starters will be? >> it's going up to game time. >> i think somebody had said was roy sister. not quite sure yet. because of the injury situation, we want to see alfred morris. roch and i spoke with alfred morris. great gay. >> do you think that's a winning combination throughout the season? >> oh, yeah. if they use all their runningbacks, whoever is hot at the moment, go with that guy and hold on tight, i think we'll be in a good situation.

>> runningback by committee. >> i saw that! >> who do you feel like today? >> in a way, that's good, because you're not solely reliant on just one person. >> thent other team doesn't know who to game plan for. that's also okay. >> right. let's talk defense. i've read that we got some holes there. >> yeah, or like the whole defense-- >> whole defense! [ laughter ] >> there are some questions about the defensive backs, okay. >> right. >> i'm not allowed to speak on that. >> but there is a guy back there-- >> why are you not allowed to speak on that? >> he's -- merry weather and jackson are not going to be playing. jackson forever and merriweather until he comes back from injury. until we fill the gaps in the secondary, we're worried about drew brees throwing for 10,000 yards. >> because he could probably do it. [ laughter ] >> and the problem is, we're put in a situation again right off the bat the guy he spoke of is put into a situation that he has to start. and the guy he was speaking of is a guy i don't really trust.

[ laughter ] >> i was excited about the day till he brought that guy up. >> i'm sorry to bring that up. but i mean, this is going to be tough. you're going up against drew brees. >> but the front seven, arrack poe, kerrigan, the way our linebackers have been playing, that we saw them in the preseason, this front seven is going to put a lot of pressure on drew brees. they already have a lot of pressure on them now with no head coach and no interim coach. they are like in their third string. >> so we asked you guys to put in some of your picks. do you know what each other picked already? >> i don't know what he picked. >> he was yelling at me yesterday! [ laughter ] >> we start with roch first. game pick, season record pick, and, i know it's far out, but super bowl pick. >> here's the thing. i asked kevin his picks yesterday. and he's the sunny engineeringson of our show. it's always redskins no matter what. i'll let him tell you. i picked 9-7 this season. >> and you thought today would

be the saints? >> yes. no, no, actually, yes, i did think it's saints over redskins today. i'm a realist. i think it's going to be a tight game. i'm not going to predict a score. i think it could be anywhere between 3 and 7 points though. >> you say you're a realist, yet you have them at 9-7 on the season. >> because the first couple of games, people don't know what we're doing, we don't know what they are doing, so there's a situation we could come out and surprise them. >> let's quickly put up kevin's picks and then talk about the super bowl teams. >> i actually went through the schedule and tried to pick games we could win. i didn't throw out a number. i got down to if we can win 7 games, i think there's a game in december we play cleveland i'm hoping we can win in the nfc east, if we can win one of those, we get to 7. hopefully we can win all of those. >> but are the skins going to win today? >> i have the skins today. >> i don't understand that. >> i think the saints, and i'm just optimistic here, i think the saints are a team that can be beat. i think, especially early in the

season. late in the season, they get better. early in the season, with the head coach situation they have, with peyton being gone, i think they are a little off. >> i hope you're right, because that would be a great confidence builder for our team. >> it would. >> just a couple of seconds left. tell me about your event this afternoon. >> this morning we'll be playing at the greater month naz baseball field in month naz for timmy tyrel. he has a kick ball tournament. roch and i will both be out there. this young man has been going around the country raising money for cancer. 7 years old, already made more appearances on cnn, 60 minutes-- >> we get to hit the kids as hard as we want! [ laughter ] >> are you wearing your-- >> i like to represent breast cancer, i'll put on pink whenever possible. could you have your producer put a prettier picture of us up? [ laughter ] >> we'll take a snapshot here. >> all right. kevin and roch show on 106.7 the fan, thank you for joining us. >> no profnlt. and you can catch all the action today right here on fox

5, all beginning with our pregame show at 11:30. lindsay murphy is live in new orleans. then kickoff for the skins and saints at 1:00 p.m. hope you have your game snacks ready! >> we're ready! when we return, fans line up to pay their final respects to former ravens owner art modell. how does it feel to try smooth, delicious hershey's chocolate with 30% less fat? new hershey's simple pleasures chocolate. 30% less fat, 100% delicious.

. hundreds of people lined up to pay their respects to former ravens owner art modell. he passed away this week at the age of 87. modell's casket was placed on the 50-yard line of m & t stadium. almost everyone in the crowd wore their ravens jersey. modell brought the cleveland browns to baltimore in 1996. art modell will be laid to rest on tuesday. and we want to come back to gwen for one last check of your football weather for today! >> yes, we've got great weather for today. we'll actually have plenty of sunshine today, 77 degrees. a far cry from the 90s we were in yesterday before that front came through. that front is keeping us cool as we move through the week. here's a look at your weekday planner, early week planner. 76 on monday, 78 on tuesday. could be a little windy on monday, but other than that, we've got plenty of sunshine and keeping that right through the end of the week, melanie. >> we like it. thanks so much, gwen. that does it for us this